Well. Are we finally hearing an honest voice? If so, kudos. After so many ridiculous lies it's hard to tell whether this is a real question or not.
Give up on Jesus? . . . well, I work in a church. And all of the contradictions and absurdities that I was hearing and seeing just started to pile up. So many things about xtianity just make no sense to me, such as the virgin birth, the resurrection, the need for a blood sacrifice, original sin (particularly since we now can trace DNA and know that there was not an Adam & Eve, and there was no "original couple"), miracles, religious wars, the utter capricious viciousness of Yahweh, the absurdity of God's adopting of one tiny tribe, inhabiting a space smaller than Lake Michigan, and then demanding that the word be spread via missionaries. The total lack of Yahweh's contact with all of the other people on the planet at that time. The total lack of proof since then. The total lack of proof now, when a Deity could prove to the entire world, with one viral video, that they exist, and eradicate religious conflict and ISIL and all the rest. I gradually got to the point where the very existence of any Deity just makes no sense to me.
Give up on Jesus? . . . well, I work in a church. And all of the contradictions and absurdities that I was hearing and seeing just started to pile up. So many things about xtianity just make no sense to me, such as the virgin birth, the resurrection, the need for a blood sacrifice, original sin (particularly since we now can trace DNA and know that there was not an Adam & Eve, and there was no "original couple"), miracles, religious wars, the utter capricious viciousness of Yahweh, the absurdity of God's adopting of one tiny tribe, inhabiting a space smaller than Lake Michigan, and then demanding that the word be spread via missionaries. The total lack of Yahweh's contact with all of the other people on the planet at that time. The total lack of proof since then. The total lack of proof now, when a Deity could prove to the entire world, with one viral video, that they exist, and eradicate religious conflict and ISIL and all the rest. I gradually got to the point where the very existence of any Deity just makes no sense to me.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
